It doesn't look like SMS was catering for content creators as the primary user. Every time I talked to SMS about adding or improving content creation tools on the Pro version. they end up telling me this part has low priority because most people don't use them. When we look at the update logs, they concentrate on what people use the most, definitely not the dev tools. I have no doubt that the majority of Poser users have never touched even half of the tabs beyond Pose and Materials.
SMS' lack of communication with the community has always been like this, even more with the previous owners. The only exception was when Chuck Taylor was the product manager. Most of the recent progress was done in that short period, where we had multiple updates and webinars involving the community. Seems like that was Chuck, and not SMS. Once he was gone, so was all the progress and open communication.
To some of those who read this, it may seem like we are detracting from the subject - but not really. The fact that I have tried to make it easier for conforming clothing to fit my body morphs - and failed - is a red flag. Up above I was mentioning the series of poor SMS decisions that led to how Poser is now, both in features and pricing. This communication gap has led to the current demise. If SMS (or the dev team) cannot see that copying morphs from the figure to make them follow the figure's morph is "essential", I see a problem there. I couldn't make this easier for my customers because the feature is not available in the Poser Python API, remaining confined to the Poser Pro version only.
When I started this thread, I didn't believe I wouldn't be able to compensate with a Python script. I thought I was just not finding out how to do it, and that someone else could point me to the right direction. I have asked at the SMS forums, and looks like there is no way around it. SMS has told me this is how it was designed to be. That brings me back to the poor decisions. Only someone who has probably never used Poser could think this was a good idea.
SMS' lack of communication with the community has always been like this, even more with the previous owners. The only exception was when Chuck Taylor was the product manager. Most of the recent progress was done in that short period, where we had multiple updates and webinars involving the community. Seems like that was Chuck, and not SMS. Once he was gone, so was all the progress and open communication.
To some of those who read this, it may seem like we are detracting from the subject - but not really. The fact that I have tried to make it easier for conforming clothing to fit my body morphs - and failed - is a red flag. Up above I was mentioning the series of poor SMS decisions that led to how Poser is now, both in features and pricing. This communication gap has led to the current demise. If SMS (or the dev team) cannot see that copying morphs from the figure to make them follow the figure's morph is "essential", I see a problem there. I couldn't make this easier for my customers because the feature is not available in the Poser Python API, remaining confined to the Poser Pro version only.
When I started this thread, I didn't believe I wouldn't be able to compensate with a Python script. I thought I was just not finding out how to do it, and that someone else could point me to the right direction. I have asked at the SMS forums, and looks like there is no way around it. SMS has told me this is how it was designed to be. That brings me back to the poor decisions. Only someone who has probably never used Poser could think this was a good idea.